The Metaphysics of Media
Toward an End of Postmodern Cynicism and the Construction of a Virtuous Reality
Distributed for the University of Scranton Press
- Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Metaphysics of Media?
Why Should Anyone Care?
Chapter One: On the Utility of the Media Ecological Perspective as a Tool in the Study of the Metaphysics of a Culture
Chapter Two: The Contentious Nature of Objective Reality and the Inarguable Value of Truth
Chapter Three: Orality
Chapter Four: The Metaphysics of Orality
Chapter Five: Literacy
Chapter Six: The Metaphysics of Literacy
Chapter Seven: Electric Culture
Chapter Eight: The Metaphysics of Electric Culture
Chapter Nine: In the Dark: The Survival of Ignorance in an Age of Information
Appendix: An Explanation of the Media Ecological Principles
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Philosophy: General Philosophy
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